79/173 He has within a day or two again said to me as much." "And that," Strether asked, "is why you consider that he cares less than she ?" "Cares less for her than she for him? A man, don't you think ?" little Bilham presently pursued, "CAN'T, in such conditions, care so much as a woman. It takes different conditions to make him, and then perhaps he cares more. Chad," he wound up, "has his possible future before him." "Are you speaking of his business future ?" "No--on the contrary; of the other, the future of what you so justly call their situation. M.de Vionnet may live for ever." "So that they can't marry ?" The young man waited a moment. |